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Old Books That Are Actually Funny

The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.

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4,111 humour

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Phantasmagoria and Other Poems
Lewis Carroll · poetry
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Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories
William Carleton · short story
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Phemie Frost's Experiences
Ann S. Stephens · novel
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Phil May: Sketches from "Punch."
Phil May · novel
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Phil May's Gutter-Snipes: 50 Original Sketches in Pen & Ink
Phil May · novel
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Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee
William Carleton · short story
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Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective
Ellis Parker Butler · novel
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Philosophy 4: A Story of Harvard University
Owen Wister · novel
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Physiology of the Opera
-1891 Scrici · play
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Piccadilly Jim
P. G. Wodehouse · novel
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Piccadilly: A Fragment of Contemporary Biography
Laurence Oliphant · novel
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Pictures by Gavarni
Paul Gavarni · novel
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Pictures by Phil May
Phil May · novel
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Pictures of People
Charles Dana Gibson · novel
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Pieces of Hate; And Other Enthusiasms
Heywood Broun · ideas
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Pigs is Pigs
Ellis Parker Butler · short story
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Pine Tree Ballads: Rhymed Stories of Unplaned Human Natur' up in Maine
Holman Day · poetry
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Pipefuls
Christopher Morley · ideas
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Pirates: A comedy in one act
Colin Clements · play
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Pistols for two
H. L. Mencken · biography
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Plain Mary Smith: A Romance of Red Saunders
Henry Wallace Phillips · novel
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Plato's American Republic
Douglas Woodruff · play
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Playful Poems
Henry Morley · poetry
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Playing Safe in Piperock
W. C. Tuttle · novel
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Plays, written by Sir John Vanbrugh, volume the second
John Vanbrugh · play
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Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honour
W. Somerset Maugham · play
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Please pass the cream: A comedy
Charles Nevers Holmes · play
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Plish and Plum
Wilhelm Busch · novel
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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon
George Washington Plunkitt · ideas
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Poems for Pale People
Edwin Carty Ranck · poetry
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Poems on Golf
Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh · poetry
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Poeta de Tristibus; Or, The Poet's Complaint
Harold Love · poetry
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Poetical Ingenuities and Eccentricities
William T. Dobson · poetry
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Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin
Charles Edmonds · poetry
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Pogo Planet
Donald A. Wollheim · short story
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Pogonologia; Or, A Philosophical and Historical Essay on Beards
J.-A. Dulaure · ideas
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Point Lace and Diamonds
George Augustus Baker · poetry
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Points of Humour, Part 1 (of 2)
George Cruikshank · novel
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Points of Humour, Part 2 (of 2)
George Cruikshank · short story
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Poison: A Farce
George M. Baker · play
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Polite Conversation in Three Dialogues
Jonathan Swift · play
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Polite Satires: Containing The Unknown Hand, The Volcanic Island, Square Pegs
Clifford Bax · play
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Political Application
John Victor Peterson · short story
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Polly the Pagan: Her Lost Love Letters
Isabel Anderson · novel
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Pomona's Travels
Frank R. Stockton · novel
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Ponkapog Papers
Thomas Bailey Aldrich · ideas
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Pop-Guns: One Serious and One Funny
Aunt Fanny · novel
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Poppa Needs Shorts
Walt Richmond · short story